oh noes!
after about 5 seconds the recall stops animating!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHKM2Muir0E
this shows recall working, but without animation!
what is stopping the animation?
Thanks guys

vidya is unavailable. Is there map max, or lots of fighting going on?

It's available now. The map is nowhere near maxed and there is no fighting going on
The terrain is just empty land.
edit: there are reavers shooting scarabs for the dds system... don't see how that would effect it though.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 6 2009, 12:43 am by crutex.

yeah, there's a limit to the number of images/attacks which can be displayed at once. try it without windowed?

http://www.staredit.net/wiki/Map_Limits
Arbiter's recall may (and probably does) fall under the weapon limit. try using other spells.

It's your sprite limit that's cutting your Recall off.

The DDS gets started for the first while, and then while you're storing the SCarabs, each one of those scarabs takes up a sprite. They add up, and eat away at your sprite limit. Have a trigger like this to prevent it-

::::::::Trigger:::::::
Players:______
-(Player owning the Scarabs)
Conditions:______
-Current Player commands at least 500 (Or however many you want) Protoss Scarabs
Actions:_______
-Remove 1 Protoss Scarab at (Location owning the Scarabs)
-Commentzorz
-Preserve Trigger

Scarabs are units, not sprites, but you may be right that they use up a sprite, I bet that bluish glow on them does.

limiting the dds to 50 scarabs "fixed" the problem, but limiting the dds to even 100 scarabs causes the issue
from that link it says Starcraft sprite limit: 2500
what gives
edit: oh Starcraft weapon limit: 100
Thanks rockz

So, a new problem has arisen and it might not have any solution. How can you implement a dds and not lose animation effects without limiting the number of scarabs to such a low amount (50)? Would anything but scarabs be possible?

what's the problem with the small number of scarabs? How about you just decrease life, and don't do as much damage as fast.

Yeah of course you can do that, but it minimizes the effectiveness (flexibility) of the dds. Someone was saying to limit to 500 scarabs for instance, which I took as a normal amount for such a system. The issue does not necessarily apply to my situation, but it could easily apply to someone else's which is why I posed the problem.

you could always get 100 reavers around a toggleable unreachable unit so you can turn on and off the DDS until you need it, or perhaps increase/decrease the number based on need.

You can't have more than 100 scarabs though.

Could you get the scarabs out of the reavers and moved onto the target unit in 1 trigger cycle still? Or would you do it while burning time with a spell animation?

No, but you don't plan on having all this happen in 1 trigger cycle do you? If so, then you need to modify your units to never take much damage.

What I'm saying is 1. Limit damage to an absolute minimum. 2. always have a small contingent of scarabs (ie 20-50). 3. Increase the number of scarabs if there will definitely be a battle soon or something, or a particularly heavy hitter joins the battle.

Otherwise, you can just limit it to 500 and never bother with spells.